Earlier this week, Washington Post investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Jeff Leen hosted an online chat at washingtonpost.com. One of the participants asked Woodward and Leen how pervasive the voter suppression tactic known as "caging" is. The investigative reporters had no idea what it was:

Washington, D.C.: Don't you have a duty to report criminal activity to the appropriate authorities?

How pervasive is "caging"?

Bob Woodward and Jeff Leen: We publish what we can find and document. Many times over the years government authorities have pursued the information we have dug up and launched their own investigations. But we're trying to serve the readers, and we do not act as police or prosecutors. And please send us an e-mail explaing [sic] what "caging" is.

Woodward and Leen aren't the only Washington Post reporters who are clueless about caging. In a washingtonpost.com online chat with congressional reporter Jonathan Weisman in May, a questioner asked "why Congress didn't jump on Monica Goodling's testimony about caging." Weisman's response: "So what is this caging thing?"

So for all those Washington Post reporters out there, let's go over the facts again...

Check out TP for those facts (as if you need them), and how you can contact Woodward, and the rest of the clueless WaPo gang to give the poor folks some help on this very very (apparently) obscure topic.

BRAD BLOG's own dozens and dozens of articles --- apparently most of them just too "exclusive" --- on the topic, are posted right here in reverse chronological order.

Bob "groupthink" Woodward is a warmonger and an Israeli firster. Come on the reason he did not ask tough questions before the invasion is because he was all about it. This is a journalist who went out and publicly undermined Patrick Fitzgeralds investigation of the outing of Valerie Plame/Wilson all the while knowing that he was one of the informed of her identity. This guy was trying to protect one of the out Plame traitor team members. This guy was willing to try hard to protect the Bush team that undermined National Security.

Woodward was recently at Ohio University. His talk was a joke, he was a showboat, making fun of Bush (very popular these days). When asked about what he had learned about the pitiful reporting on the run up to the invasion of Iraq and how those lessons could be applied to Iran. Woodward said "Iran is dangerous"

Woodward should be prosecuted for his public efforts to undermine Fitz's investigation and trying to protect the traitor team who have undermined National Security

To "educate" Republicans and well-paid Washington Post reporters and managers like Woodward and Leen, I would like to propose that political left-leaning folks organize a caging operation of their own to bring it "home" to them.

Since many of these affluent folks have two or more residences and don't live in a single residence year-long, they should be sent letters to their residence of record at a time of the year when they are mostly likely to be vacationing at their second or third home, with those letters marked expressly to not be forwarded to the other residence.

It would be interesting to see how many such letters would be returned to sender with a stamped message that the affluent resident did not retrieve the letter. Their legal residency could thus be challenged at the polls like so many of their poorer brethren who have very different circumstances and reasons for their mail not reaching them.